GOP lawmaker slams Trump's 'silly' new move to brand US with his face: 'It's not American'

A retiring Republican congressman trashed the State Department's plan to issue passports honoring President Donald Trump.

An agency official said Americans who renew their documents in Washington, D.C., will be issued passports with the 79-year-old president's face and his signature printed in gold on the inside cover, and CNN's John Berman asked Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) what he thought about the government's plan.

"Congressman, we got word thismorning that the State Department is preparing to issue Donald Trump-branded passports, and I think we have a mockup ofthem so people can see there," Berman said. "That's the outside, the insidehas a picture of President Trumpon the inside with a goldensignature on top of the Declaration of Independence.They will be available, we'retold, at the Washington passportoffice, the default location.You may get your passport in Nebraska, but, you know, Idon't know if you're up forrenewal, but how do you feelabout going to get a Trump-branded passport?"

Bacon expressed disdain for the move, comparing it to something he would expect in China or the Soviet Union.

"Well, I have to renew inabout a year," Bacon said. "I think it's alittle silly. We we laughed at Russia when they had pictures of Lenin and Stalin everywhere. Goto China, they had pictures of Mao everywhere. You go to North Korea, pictures of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un. We're America, and I think we doless of that, and I just thinkthere's a little bit ofoverreach by some of the subordinates of the presidentwho are trying to cate forhis attention. It's notreally America to do this."

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